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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Print This Page S. Korea kills thousands of pigs, chickens to stem spread of bird flu
SOUTH KOREA - South Korean quarantine authorities said Sunday they have culled an additional 4,000 pigs and 2,000 chickens to prevent the spread of bird flu.A total of 21,146 ducks, 2,820 chickens and 4,177 pigs have been slaughtered since Thursday, when the fourth outbreak of a highly pathogenic bird flu virus in a month was reported in Asan, about 90 kilometers south of Seoul.
The pigs were on a farm located in a 500-meter-radius of the outbreak site and the chickens on a farm within a 3-kilometer-radius, quarantine officials in the local South Chungcheong Province said.
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Source: Yonhap News
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